Iron­i­cally, Marc at the blog titled Neu­ro­sci­en­tif­i­cally Chal­lenged has just released one of the best edi­tions of Encephalon blog car­ni­val. Pay a visit only when you have some time to spare with a col­lec­tion of excel­lent and very well pre­sented neu­ro­science, med­i­cine and psy­chol­ogy blog posts, on top­ics rang­ing from fMRI to gene ther­apy and neuroplasticity.

The move­ment to have US pres­i­den­tial candidatesÃ‚Â dis­cuss Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy in a devoted debate has been pick­ing up steam. Date and place are sched­uled: April 18th at the Franklin Insti­tute in Philadelphia.

- cospon­sored by the AAAS, the Coun­cil on Com­pet­i­tive­ness, the National Acad­emy of Sci­ences, the National Acad­emy of Engi­neer­ing, and the Insti­tute of Med­i­cine, and signed by over 100 lead­ing Amer­i­can uni­ver­si­ties and other organizations

What were you doing on August 26th, 2006? That day, Mo, the blog­ger behind Sci­ence­Blogs’ Neu­rophi­los­o­phy, launched the Encephalon blog car­ni­val to present, every other week, a selec­tion of the best neu­ro­science and psy­chol­ogy blog posts on brain and mind.

It has been one of the most stim­u­lat­ing blog car­ni­vals ever since, and we are hon­ored to con­tinue the tra­di­tion. Today we are proud to announce…